How to pronounce skim

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What skim means

verb

Most people know skim in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To read something fast to get just the main idea

In a sentence: Leo had just enough time to skim the chapter before the quiz started.

Where it comes from: It comes from an old French word, escumer, meaning to take the foam off the top of a liquid. It is related to the word scum.

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